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Two different approaches to #42 (I love mathematics because there's always another way to do the problem....).
Though you may be tempted, Don't use L'Hopital's rule yet (in case you know what that means), unless you can prove it.
Notice that in problem #36, $a(t)=s''(t)=-s(t)$: this is the differential equation whose solutions are sines and cosines.
To draw sines and cosines, units of $\pi$ along the $x$-axis are best. You're not stuck with integers, you know: you can get all irrational.
I jokingly use the acronym "UPCE" (oopsie!) for the general problem solving strategy:
"Warning: a common error is to substitute the given numerical information (for quantities that vary with time) too early." (p. 179). Substitute only after the differentiation is complete.